Torrent description

Birmingham Progressive AOR act. CITY BOY, with their trademark twin lead vocal style of Lol Mason and Steve Broughton, dabbled with Progressive Rock, Funk Rock and radio friendly rockers. Many of CITY BOY's album were notably produced by produced by Robert John 'Mutt' Lange.

The group's foundations lay in the early seventies club act BACK IN THE BAND, comprising Lol Mason, Steve Broughton, Chris Dunn, Max Thomas and drummer Roger Kent. With the addition of guitarist Mike Slamer the band evolved out of the acoustic scene and became CITY BOY. The band signed to the Vertigo label and debuted in 1976 with the single 'Hap-Ki-Do', this track charting in the UK in the lower reaches of the top 40.

The 1978 album 'Book Early' was the first to feature new drummer Roy Ward. It would be launched in fine style with the hit single '5.7.0.5', originally entitled 'Turn On To Jesus' but re-named at the insistence of the record label. That year CITY BOY undertook high profile touring of North America as support to HALL & OATES. 1979's 'The Day The Earth Caught Fire', once again produced by Lange, would be recorded in the exotic climes of Compass Point Studios, Nassau in the Bahamas. Although the group had switched to Atlantic Records for the US market the onslaught of Punk Rock suffocated any further progress. The band's last live date would be in 1979 and the 1980 album 'Heads Are rolling' would be released with negligible promotion. Following 1981's 'It's Personal', only released in Scandinavia, the band folded...

Track Listing
1. 5.7.0.5.
2. Summer In The School Yard
3. Goodbye Lauralie
4. Raise Your Glass (To Foolish Me)
5. Cigarettes
6. What A Night
7. Do What You Do, Do Well
8. The World Loves A Dancer
9. Moving In Circles
10. Dangerous Ground

THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE
1979

Track Listing
1. The Day The Earth Caught Fire
2. It's Only The End Of the World
3. Interrupted Melody
4. Modern Love Affair
5. New York Times
6. Up In The Eighties
7. Machines
8. Ambition a) Ambition
9. Ambition b) Me and My Tarot
10. Ambition c) Rev-On (The Crunch)
11. The End (Came Easy)